Agree with the Governments threat saying they will impose a windfall tax on Clubs who furlough non playing staff instead of asking their highly paid players to take a cut. Just been announced, Barcelona players have agreed to a 70% cut in pay and Brighton manager Graham Potter has now agreed to have his salary reduced.
Yep, said this on twitter. The furlough system has been put in place to safeguard employers and employees so there are jobs and businesses to go back to. Not for multi billionaire owners of football clubs that have banked millions to take advantage. Pogba for example not going to miss a months wages, its pocket change with all the addons from sponsorship and endorsements
How on earth Premiership players have not to a man volunteered to take pay cuts to protect the positions of other much lower paid club staff I will never understand. Nor how lower league clubs could be lift to go under as the swine stick their noses in the overflowing trough. Mike Ashley milking the Government furlough arrangement is easy to understand. He is a greedy, soulless, shameless chancer looking to profit from a global crisis. If any good is to come of this it must be the re-setting of moral and financial parameters within the world of football.
Get the overpaid primadonnas to take a massive pay cut and redirect that to keep the rest of the staff employed. Trouble is, when it's all over the fans will go rushing back to throw their hard earned at the clubs and Sky tv, so we'll be back to square one so quickly it'll be like it never went away.
There will be no resetting of values, moral or financial whilst Sky are involved and the finances between the premiership and lower leagues continues to grow further apart unfortunately.
This was discussed at length on LBC last night. Even knowing that there is a moral vacuum in elite football I find it staggering that players earning, on average, £70k per week are quite happy to sit back and watch their non playing colleagues, earning minimim wage in some cases, be furloughed or even laid off. It has been reported that some have even refused to take a wage cut. As a group they should be utterly ashamed of themselves but they won't be and I guess they either don't know or don't care about the contempt that a large % of fans and the public will hold them in.
This puts things into some perspective. 'If every player was to donate a week’s wages, that would probably pay the wage bill for everybody else for more than a year' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...er-league-clubs-living-moral-vacuum-applying/
What comes out of this . That certain people have shown their true colours and this as to be remembered if and when we come out of this . The likes of Wetherspoons Sports direct we just all boycott them. As for football I gave up on it 2 years ago . Greed greed and more greed
This just adds to my general apathy about English professional football. If it carries on in this greedy selfish fashion it would do well not to eat itself. I have for some time now stopped feeding this already money-gluttoned machine, be it on sky or in person.
